Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this percentage is a little drastic to apply to Harvard. Red Books, managerships, Student Councils run on and on, and though they lack the fine flavor of campus prestige that once surrounded them, they have a harmless, and often a pleasant place, in the slowly disintegrating entity of Harvard life...
There apparently remains some doubt in the minds of certain Harvard students as to the merits of the Pilgrim Fathers. To settle this weighty question once and for all, and also to pass verdict on the passive role of the Plymouth Rock in the establishment of Boston society, a British Debating Team, composed of former members of English colleges, now at Harvard, and a Radcliffe College team are to clash tonight in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, at 8.15 o'clock in a bitter dispute. The question is: "Resolved, That it would have been better if the Plymouth Rock had landed...
...annual course of Health Lectures to be given at the Medical School on Longwood Avenue this year has recently been announced by the faculty of medicine of Harvard University. This series of 12 lectures on medical subjects is to be open to the public, and there will be no admission charge. The lectures are to take place on Sunday afternoons, beginning on January 5 and ending on March 23. The addresses will begin at 4 o'clock, and the doors will be closed at five minutes past the hour...
...concentration and tutorial systems into the Choate School curriculum, while commendable because of the interest shown in individual scholarship, is a rather far step from the purpose of the secondary school. According to the outline proposed, the Choate News advocates a modification to some degree of the Harvard tutorial system, placing at the disposal of the high-ranking student the advantage of preparing special work aside from classroom courses under supervision of the masters. The project is similar to the Harvard system in that it allows sufficient opportunity for intelligent and informal discussion between teacher and pupil, and makes attendance...
...esteemed contemporary recently viewed the House Plan at Harvard as meaning nothing more than "added paternalism and increased floor space." There are, no doubt, many who would be pleased to construe the experiment as simply as that, yet the fact remains there are several questions which are uppermost and will not be settled until the scheme has a reality...